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kJ5e TIL The U.S. briefly banned sliced bread in 1943
5nZ8 TIL that there is a Japanese urban legend about a spirit who haunts public bathrooms and will ask you if you want red or blue toilet paper.
QJApp TIL a Chinese woman was bitten by a Pit viper 3 months after stuffing the snake into a bottle of wine, in order to make a traditional Chinese medicine called Snake Wine. She opened the bottle to drink some after suffering from joint pain, the snake escaped, biting her in the process.
460o TIL in 1999 Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow light down to 37 miles an hour, and was later able to stop light completely.
yQx6V TIL after Disneyland's success, NBC invited Walt Disney to build his 2nd theme park near Secaucus, New Jersey not far from NYC. Walt found out the NJ climate would not allow a year-round park, and Roy Disney suggested putting "some method of controlling the weather – a vast dome or some such thing."